It's no wonder this potato is a favorite among home gardeners year after year. This main season variety also stores well, so you can enjoy spuds into the cool months of fall and winter.
Botanical Features
- Plants: large, slightly spreading; stems thick, prominently angled; nodes slightly reddish purple; wings prominent and double.
- Leaves: moderately open, medium to large, broadly ovate; midribs reddish purple at the attachment of the primary leaflets.
- Terminal leaflets: tip obtuse; base partially truncate.
- Primary leaflets: four pairs.
- Secondary leaflets: numerous, on the midrib between pairs of primary leaflets and at the junctions of the midrib and petiolules.
- Flowers: large, light purple with white tips.
- Tubers: oblong to round; smooth, sometimes netted, red skin; medium deep eyes; white flesh.
- Sprouts: dark reddish purple.
